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Cerebralbore101 on 05 August 2017
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derpysquirtle64 said:

Cerebralbore101 said:
The only people saying that MS deserves praise for this are PC gamers. Anybody that bought an XB1 in 2013 under the assumption that it was needed to play good exclusives got played. It's not good for consumers when a company sells you a product and then turns around to make the product completely unnecessary and worthless.

You say that PC gamers are the only one who can praise MS for this but then you describe something that is more about PC gamers primarily who bought Xbox One just for exclusives. So, do PC gamers really praise MS for this?

Well some people primarily game on PS4, but bought XB1 for exclusives too. But there aren't enough exclusives on XB1 to justify that sort of a purchase. So it isn't just primarily PC gamers that this effects. 

But yeah, PC gamers really do praise MS for this. They want exclusives to go away alltogether, so that they can just get a PC and not have to worry about extra console purchases. For a lot of them, any company that gets in the way of this is evil in their eyes. This is where the aggressive emulation of just released games comes from. It's also where all the port begging comes from. 

When you take a look at this industry as a whole, there's a huge chunk of, critically well recieved, games that just don't come to PC right away. I'm talking about games that either never come to PC, or take five or six years to get an official port. These games make up 40% of all releases garnering a metascore over 80/100. This really annoys people that primarily game on PC, because they just don't want to have to shell out extra money for a console. 

TL/DR: PC gamers want everything to no longer be exlusive so they aren't obligated into buying a console. MS works towards this goal, therefore they deserve praise according to PC gamers.